The case against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is reportedly to fall apart as the evidences previously considered as firm and irrevocable are in fact dubious and worthless. This may open a way for Strauss-Kahn to participate in the presidential elections in France.

On May 14 Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged with assaulting a hotel maid in New York. Now prosecutors had some doubts about the credibility of the maid as the whole case was built absolutely on her allegations.

"The credibility is in question," the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

In May the US police crowed about her credibility and pointed out to the evidence that showed semen was found on the collar of her maid's uniform, a source close to the investigation said.

However, defense lawyers disputed the claim of a violent assault insisting on consensual sex.

One more source close to the case said that the district attorney's office took the case to a grand jury without fully checking out the woman's bona fides.

"Just about everything that was reported on this woman early on was untrue but no one checked or wanted to believe anything else," the source told Reuters.

The New York Times reported that prosecutors met with Strauss-Kahn's lawyers on Thursday and the parties were discussing whether to dismiss the felony charges.

It said Strauss-Kahn could be released on his own recognizance and freed from house arrest and that prosecutors may try to require that he plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but that his lawyers were likely to contest such a move.

If Strauss-Kahn were cleared and he could recover from the scandal, he could decide to run himself or at least help bring back unity in the socialist camp.